Volume 13, Number 12 · January 1, 1970
A Good Trip
By Alexander Wetmore
History of the Birds of the Cape Verde Islands
by David Armitage Bannerman, by W. Mary Bannerman, illustrated in color by D.M. Reid-Henry, by P.A. Clancey
Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh), 458 pp., $15.00
Hummingbirds and Their Flowers
by Karen A. Grant, by Verne Grant
Columbia University, 115, H30 plates in color from photographs pp., $17.50
Birds of the Eastern Forest—1
with paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdown, text by John A. Livingston
Houghton Mifflin, 231 pp., $20.00
To the west of Africa, far distant in the vast reaches of the ocean, lie scattered bits of land, the Atlantic Islands, that in the years since their discovery have attracted visitors with many and diverse interests. Among these, David Bannerman, ornithologist and traveler, in three previous volumes in turn has written of the birdlife of the Canary Islands and the Selvagens, of Madeira and its minor satellites, and of the Azores. Now with the assistance of Mary Bannerman, his wife, also a serious student of birds, he presents an account of the birdlife of the Cape Verdes, equal in attraction to its predecessors.
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